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Sale of Catholic Health Insurer Fidelis May Ease Birth Control Access in New York (Updated)

“In terms of reproductive health coverage, I think the sale of Fidelis to Centene is a win for the women of New York,” Lois Uttley, who has researched Fidelis for at least a decade, told Rewire.News.

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Reimagining Black Mamahood in an Unjust Society

Regina Mahone

Campaigns like the Mamas Day project amplify imagery that allows Black people, including Black immigrant mothers, to see themselves as their communities see them.

What We Cannot do is be Revolutionaries Except When We’re Mothering

Kentina and Naomi Washington-Leapheart

Sophia is being mothered by two Black, queer-identified ministers who work full-time in activist/movement spaces. To the unimaginative and close-minded, these identities are contradicting impossibilities.

Obama Rejected Texas’ Anti-Choice Health-Care Program. Now the State Is Appealing to Trump.

Teddy Wilson

Critics of the program dispute Attorney General Ken Paxton’s claim that the success of the program is “not dependent on Planned Parenthood’s participation."

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Missouri GOP Rams Through Planned Parenthood Defunding in Budget Vote

Erin Heger

Cutting Planned Parenthood out of the Medicaid program harms the 7,000 Medicaid patients who visit Planned Parenthood health centers every year in Missouri, leaving them with few options to access preventive health care.

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Trump Judicial Nominee Ryan Bounds Would Be Dangerous for Survivors of Sexual Assault

Fatima Goss Graves

Ryan Bounds' disturbing views on campus sexual assault are not an isolated example of his apparent disdain for civil rights.

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For OB-GYN Group, Recent Social Media Flap Needs to Be a Wakeup Call

Monica McLemore, Didi Saint Louis & Karen A. Scott

Essentially telling women at higher risk for pregnancy-related complications to simply “wrap it up" and avoid pregnancy is unacceptable.

Bailing Out Black Mamas Means Bailing Out Trans People

Rachel Anspach

Southerners on New Ground hopes that the organizing strategies it is developing in partnership with the Transgender Law Center will provide guidance to other organizations in the bailout coalition that are also facing difficulties finding trans and gender nonconforming folks to bail out.

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Gavel Drop: Did California Just Shake Up the Gig Economy?

Jessica Mason Pieklo

The California Supreme Court just issued a decision that might mean businesses like Uber have to start following employment laws.

Caravan Asylum Seekers Let in, but Their Harrowing Journey Continues

Ari Honarvar

“We are in a refugee crisis."

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